eLearning Advisory Committee Meeting 12-2-08 LMS task force update-Andy Duckworth
Faculty Members on Angel task force
Char Gore
Craig Cowden
John Miller
Scott Cochrane
Kim Harrington
Using GoogleDocs to write recommendation
Recommendation from task force is that Angel is the way to go
Kim had some trouble importing content into Angel because she has a unique way her class is set up
Only test item that hasn’t gone through is ordering of test questions. (That has been found by us so far).
Char had links came through fine. Do embedded images import correctly?
Craig had some issues with importing Blackboard GradeCenter into the Gradebook in Angel.
It is important to correctly categorize items and set up the Gradebook correctly. Takes some extra work to fix the Gradebook if it is not set up properly in the import.
There will have to be many training sessions to teach faculty to import Blackboard GradeCenter into Angel Gradebook and to facilitate the transition.
Task force working on recommendation to be presented to the Instructional Council in January 2009
Going with Angel would save the eLearning department between $100,000 and $130,000 per year if the current cost model is approved verses staying with Blackboard
Cable Green is working with the state to get the WAOL cost model approved. The hope is that the current cost model gets approved in Winter quarter 09.
We would not have to pay Presidium if we were hosted by WAOL
Even if there were no cost savings, task force decided that Angel is a more robust system.
WAOL has a 3 year contract with Angel
WAOL went through extensive 18 month RFP process and Angel stood out as the clear winner for faculty and students.
Issues with speed of support from the WAOL system in the past. This looks like this has been resolved.
eLearning will have direct contact with Angel on support issues. eLearning will submit online support ticket. Phone contact for emergencies only.
Tacoma Community College will have its own segregated domain in the WAOL system.
Geoff wants to gather up specific problems faculty are having with importing content from Blackboard into Angel and set up a meeting with Jesse Sims to address our specific concerns and needs here at TCC.
Quality Matters- Char Gore
Quality Matters is a company that gives seal of approval to course if it meets requirements after review
Currently two adjunct faculty are learning how to build a course meeting the Quality Matters standards
The assessments in the course have to meet the objectives
Instructions in the course have to be given in multiple ways
Char and other instructors gathered the policies that the instructors used in their courses and looked into what other colleges used as their policy. These policies were compared to see what the differences were and what could be added and/or incorporated to improve our course policies.
You can input Quality Matters objectives in Angel and tie them to specific items in the course.
WAOL is a subscriber to Quality Matters. (If we go with Angel)-Andy Duckworth can set up user accounts in Quality Matters and it can be used without paying if it is for internal use only.
There is a good payoff for getting this seal of approval. Sets us apart and provides better competition with other online HIM programs.
A lot of work to set the course up to be passed by a Quality Matters review, but in the long run, saves the instructor time and improves quality of course.
$800 to have a course reviewed.
Once a course is certified, it stays certified. If the course content is passed along to another instructor, as long as the content remains the same, it retains the seal of approval from Quality Matters.
TCC’s intellectual property policy online does not cover student’s work as intellectual policy
Push the use of Creative Commons license
Issues with TCC’s published rules on how student’s content is going to be used. Content could be in Blackboard, on a blog, or a wiki.
Assumed that instructor and student’s content won’t be used in another way (like being posted to YouTube, etc), but this should be part of the written copyright policy on TCC website.
Craig Cowden uses student papers as examples, but always asks the student permission.
Char has a student that was worried about posting on a locked blog. The student was worried that if she posted to the blog, she would lose intellectual rights to her posting.
Example from University of Tennessee is a (non-official) policy, not a law or a rule.
Note: This intellectual property information is not official policy of the University of Tennessee. It does not constitute legal advice. Specific questions about how intellectual property applies to individual situations should be referred to the Faculty Senate, facultysenate1@utk.edu, or visit http://web.utk.edu/~senate for more information.
It is in the Instructor Handbook how to handle student and instructor’s work as intellectual property. Craig will look in handbook to see exactly what it states on this subject.
We may need to develop an updated policy and publish this to students in online courses.
eLearning Podcast Project-Geoff Cain
TCC has lots of podcasts in iTunes U (about 100 currently), but only 4 are publicly available podcasts
We would like to expand the number of publicly available podcast in our now public iTunesU page
Interviews of students and faculty to create new podcasts
Geoff will ask instructors that are already podcasting if they would give content to be posted in iTunes U.
For education and research purposes, copyright law is broadly defined and lots could be published publicly for educational purposes.
Meeting Agenda
10:00a-11:00a in 28-222
Meeting Notes:
eLearning Advisory Committee Meeting 12-2-08LMS task force update-Andy Duckworth
Quality Matters- Char Gore
Intellectual Property-Andy Duckworth
eLearning Podcast Project-Geoff Cain